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@JoshuaCypess
Mar 20, 2022 • 26 tweets • 14 min read • Read on X
088.01/ Week eighty-eight, March 19-25, 2022, thread begins here.

Week 87 below.

I'm making the week number three digits because it's getting close to 100 and I want to avoid the double eight weirdness
088.02/ Happy Able To Use The Word Vernal For Once day! #VernalEquinox
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_equ…
088.03/ Sadly, I needed to miss my favorite book sale of all time, the Bryn-Mawr "A Gym Filled With Used Books That You Can Purchase By The Box For A Set Price I Am Not Kidding" Wellsley Book Sale because it was on Purim and Shabbos. Shazbot. Next year?
bmandwbooks.com/the-annual-sal…
088.04/ Yup.

Similar advice (coming from my expertise as a professional speaker): judge a rabbi/expert by how often they talk about themselves in their "lessons." If it's over 10%, that's a problem.

Over 30%? Red flag.

50%? Run.
088.05/ The #Mets, #NYR, and #NYKnicks are on TV all the same time. Not kidding, I said #Shehechiyanu. Because it's still a pandemic and I can't take anything for granted.
088.06/ We used to describe our kids ages by milestones “they took first step/eat solid food/sleep through the night" etc. This can be done for we Middle Agers as well: last year I was “all my kids are bnei mitzvah” years old. This year? “My oldest is visiting colleges” years old
088.07/ #NachasAlert! My daughter's Torah Bowl team won the divisionals and are on their way to the final! Very proud of all the effort she put in and while the learning is its own reward, it's satisfying to compete in milchemet Torah.
jewishlink.news/schools/50019-…
088.08/ #NachasAlert! Very cool: my son is part of a group that voluntarily met every Shabbas for two yrs, even over the pandemic, and it's like nothing I've ever seen. They actually are learning together as a big group of friends! It's heartwarming to see
jewishlink.news/community-news…
088.09/ This is an excellent question.




I will try to take the time to answer, not as a posek - since I'm not currently in a pulpit I don't take on that role - but as a halakhic advisor
088.09b/ Quickly tho:

I think it's manifestly clear that food aversions - to the point that someone will go hungry, even starve, before they're capable to eat a food - counts as 'pain.' And being incapable of eating is dangerous. And kitniyot isn't chametz
088.10/ @MalkaLHS has some astute insights into the how hashkama minyanim can be helpful for some ND conditions:



I replied (irregularly, oops)

088.11/ This should be enough, no? Heck, he voted for Brett "Beery McRoofie" Kavanaugh after Collins' narcissistic speech. Hopefully she'll concern her way to voting for Judge Jackson too...
088.12/ 1000% correct. And so important to keep in mind. #Literalism will see the trees and not the forest. What @What46HasDone is pointing out is a forest: the only way we know things are happening is because the Dems Are Doing Something.
088.13/ It me.
088.14/ I still technically run eparsha.com but for technical reasons (physical laws of the universe preventing me from time travel and multiple sentient clones to do the work I wish I could do) it hasn't been updated in a while.
088.15/ Again, this is doing-something. A very important something, given how the GOP has tried to take over the judiciary
088.16/ I've had worse.


(BTW, it took the GBBO to teach me that macaroons were popularized by Italian Jews because the basic recipe is Kosher for Passover)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroon
thegreatbritishbakeoff.co.uk/recipes/all/pr…
088.17/ Speaking of the GBBO, my favorite moment that absolutely encapsulates the show is in the episode with the Babka challenge, one of the judges Prue Leith, said: “I’ve had [babka] in New York and it’s not nearly as nice as [Paul Hollywood's babka].”
today.com/food/some-new-…
088.18/ "Founder's Intent" like "CRT" and "States Rights" etc. are all shorthand for racist revanchism. It's a way of skipping all the recent amendments (esp. 13-15 & 19) to recreate antebellum society.
088.19/ Not an expert by any means. But I've found that explosions work.
088.20/ I write all over my books, seforim included. All. Over.

Post-it notes are great and I use every product possible (see link) I can even take a picture to preserve the page with the stickers if I want to remove them.
amazon.com/dp/B07FQCCRVB/…
088.21/ This is why I appreciate Psaki. Sangfroid.
088.22/ Free agency period is tough, especially losing long-time fan-favorite players. This interception was a truly beautiful moment.

So, Joe, thanks for being a Steeler. Sorry we couldn't get you a ring. We'll miss you!
088.23/ Thought provoking thread by a mutual about the genre differences in adult vs YA dystopian fantasy. I especially appreciate the insight about how an adolescent revolutionary ideology can ironically lead to stasis.
088.24/ #ChochmatNashim for #Shemini
5779 Amanda Bradley blogs.timesofisrael.com/shemini-a-leap…
5780 Yael Unterman blogs.timesofisrael.com/aarons-moment-…
5781 Chaya Passow blogs.timesofisrael.com/fast-track-spi…
5782 Zoë Lang blogs.timesofisrael.com/courage-in-the…
& see HaMizrachi
drive.google.com/file/d/1MtZIlf…
pgs 5, 7, 8, 16, 21, 24
088.25/ A combination of an early Shabbos because we're going to Rutgers for Shabbas dinner, and from maddening computer trouble, I'll stop now. Stay safe everyone! #ShabbatShalom

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Week 233 below.
234.02/ #ChochmatNashim for #Vayechi 5784 (LAST YEAR) @ChochmatNashim.

Downloadable PDF with working links to Divrei Torah from Orthodox women scholars on the parsha and other topics of the week. 19 pages.
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233.01/ Week two-hundred and thirty-three, December 28, 2024-January 3, 2025, thread begins here.

Week 232 below. #HappyChanukah!
233.02/ #MotzeiShabbatMovieNight continues with a favorite - The Martian (2015) - that combined two of my other favorites: Cast Away (2000) & Apollo 13 (1995). Yes, I'm surprised Tom Hanks wasn't in this one.
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233.03/ @ppppp1245688 is correct, and I just realized that it's the modern-secular equivalent of a Yissachar-Zevulun arrangement!
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232.01/ Week two-hundred and thirty-two, December 21-27, 2024 thread begins here.

Week 231 below. Yes, it's super late, but this app is sputtering.
232.02/ Shiva minyans during #Chanukah are surreal. That is all.
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230.01/ Week two-hundred and thirty, December 7-13, 2024, thread begins here.

Week 229 below
230.02/ The Assad regime collapsing over Shabbas #Vayetze seems especially appropriate. I had long compared Lavan to Assad, the urbane facade hiding real cruelty and depravity. I celebrate the toppling of a murderous regime and the liberation of Saydnaya prison.
230.03/ Mets Twitter is having a party right now. This is fun. #LGM

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229.01/ Week two-hundred and twenty-nine, November 30-December 6, 2024, thread begins here.

Week 228 below.
229.02/ #MotzeiShabbatMovieNight continues with Argo (2012), the rare winner of a best picture Oscar that's also re-watchable.
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229.03/ #ChochmatNashim for #Vayetze #Vayetzei #Vayeitzei 5784 2023 (LAST YEAR). @ChochmatNashim.
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228.01/ Week two-hundred and twenty-eight, November 23-29, 2024, thread begins here.

Week 227 below.
228.02/ Fundamentally, a plurality want a minority to do all the work but get no reward while they do very little work & get all the reward. The only system that will get close to that - liberal Democracy - gives too much to people the plurality hates, so they vote for fantasies.
228.03/ #ChochmatNashim for #Toldot #Toledot 5784 2023 (LAST YEAR). @ChochmatNashim.
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